Ipse related to Bakhmut - Ukraine

Yevgeny Prigozhin

Inserted 11 months ago

“There is not a single Ukrainian soldier in the village of Bakhmut, for the reason that we have stopped taking prisoners. There are a huge number of corpses of the Ukrainian military. Bakhmut is taken completely along all its legal boundaries, to the last centimetre. Vladimir Alexandrovich [Zelenskyy] is disingenuous, or he, like our military leaders, is simply not aware of what is happening on the ground.”

Aljazeera

Founder of Russia’s Wagner Group, a private mercenary force

21 May 2023 2 1

Yevgeny Prigozhin

Inserted 11 months ago

“We're pushing Bakhmut all the way to the end. Unfortunately, units of the Russian defence ministry have withdrawn up to 570 metres (1,880 feet) to the north of Bakhmut, exposing our flanks. I am appealing to the top leadership of the Ministry of Defence - publicly - because my letters are not being read. Please do not give up the flanks.”

Aljazeera

Founder of Russia’s Wagner Group, a private mercenary force

18 May 2023 2 1

Yevgeny Prigozhin

Inserted 11 months ago

“Today, everything is being done so that the front line crumbles. Today, one of the defence ministry's units fled one of our flanks, abandoning their positions. Everyone fled. A soldier shouldn't die because of his leaders' absolute stupidity. The commands they receive from the top are absolutely criminal.”

Aljazeera

Founder of Russia’s Wagner Group, a private mercenary force

09 May 2023 0 1

Oleksandr Syrskyi

Inserted 11 months ago

“The Russians still hope to capture the city [Bakhmut] by May 9. Our task is to prevent this.”

Reuters

Ukraine’s commander of ground forces

07 May 2023 2 1

Gerhard Mangott

Inserted 11 months ago

“If Prigozhin really withdrew, this would be much too quick for the Russian regular armed forces to take over the positions of the Wagner fighters in and around Bakhmut. If he really means it … this would give the Ukrainian armed forces the opportunity to seize parts, or the whole of Bakhmut from the Russians. This would be a disaster for Putin and Shoigu.”

Aljazeera

Austrian analyst

05 May 2023 7 2

Hanna Malyar

Inserted 11 months ago

“The main emphasis of the Russian aggressors is on capturing multi-storey buildings and structures. It is in this way that they try to destroy our positions. The enemy has already used such tactics in Syria. He cannot fight in any other way, because he will lose to us in street battles.”

Aljazeera

Ukraine’s Deputy Defence Minister

04 May 2023 3 1

Oleksandr Syrskyi

Inserted 11 months ago

“Ukrainian units are not just defending but also counterattacking Russian forces in the city. This gives us the opportunity for several months to contain the enemy's offensive and not increase the front in this direction, to destroy his best units and buy time.”

Aljazeera

Ukraine’s commander of ground forces

26 Apr 2023 (approx) 2 1

Dmytro Zovorotnyuk

Inserted 1 year ago

“The Russians attack mainly in small groups of five to six people who, under the cover of artillery, try to penetrate the battle formations of the Defence Forces of Ukraine and engage in close-range shooting battles.”

Aljazeera

Colonel who commands a Ukrainian battalion in Bakhmut called the Teronoron Force

20 Apr 2023 3 1

Serhiy Cherevatyi

Inserted 1 year ago

“Bloody battles unprecedented in recent decades are taking place in the middle of the city's urban area. Our soldiers are doing everything in bloody and fierce battles to grind down [the enemy's] combat capability and break its morale. Every day, in every corner of this city, they are successfully doing so.”

Aljazeera

Spokesperson for Ukraine’s eastern military command

15 Apr 2023 1 1

Hanna Malyar

Inserted 1 year ago

“If we had not defended Bakhmut all this time, the enemy would have advanced deep into the territory of Ukraine, so the importance of defending the city must be understood in this context.”

Aljazeera

Ukraine’s Deputy Defence Minister

12 Apr 2023 1 1

Oleksander Musienko

Inserted 1 year ago

“Russian forces were exhausted and cannot maintain the same pace of attacks that they launched in February. It's clear now that the Russian army's ability to attack is stalled. And for all their bravado about taking over Bakhmut, it is just not true. The Russian forces are preparing to organise defensive positions. The idea is to bring the war into a positional phase, essentially a stalemate.”

Reuters

Ukrainian military expert

06 Apr 2023 3 1

Andriy Yermak

Inserted 1 year ago

“(Battles) are underway in the streets, enemy attempts to encircle the city are failing. Our command fully control the situation.”

Reuters

Senior adviser to Ukrainian President Zelenskiy

06 Apr 2023 1 1

Serhiy Cherevatiy

Inserted 1 year ago

“Bakhmut is Ukrainian and they have not captured anything and are very far from doing that, to put it mildly.”

Aljazeera

Spokesperson for the Ukrainian eastern military command

03 Apr 2023 1 1

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 1 year ago

“In less than a week, starting from the 6th March, we managed to kill more than 1,100 enemy soldiers in the Bakhmut sector alone, Russia's irreversible loss.”

Reuters

President of Ukraine

12 Mar 2023 2 1

Yevgeny Prigozhin

Inserted 1 year ago

“The closer we are to the centre of the city, the harder the fighting ... The Ukrainians throw in endless reserves. But we are advancing and we will be advancing. Yesterday, we got 15 truckloads, today we got 12. And I think we will continue to receive them.”

Reuters

Founder of Russia’s Wagner Group, a private mercenary force

12 Mar 2023 3 1

Oleksandr Syrsky

Inserted 1 year ago

“The real heroes now are the defenders who are holding the eastern front on their shoulders, and inflicting the heaviest possible losses sparing neither themselves nor the enemy. It is necessary to buy time to build reserves and launch a counteroffensive, which is not far off.”

Aljazeera

Commander of Ukraine’s ground forces

11 Mar 2023 1 1

Mykhailo Podolyak

Inserted 1 year ago

“Russia has changed tactics. It has converged on Bakhmut with a large part of its trained military personnel, the remnants of its professional army, as well as the private companies. We, therefore, have two objectives: To reduce their capable personnel as much as possible and to fix them in a few key wearisome battles, to disrupt their offensive and concentrate our resources elsewhere for the spring counteroffensive. So, today Bakhmut is completely effective, even exceeding its key tasks.”

Aljazeera

Advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

10 Mar 2023 3 2

Lloyd Austin

Inserted 1 year ago

“I think it is more of a symbolic value than it is strategic and operational value. The fall of Bakhmut won't necessarily mean that the Russians have changed the tide of this fight.”

Aljazeera

US Secretary of Defense

06 Mar 2023 2 1

Nikolay Mitrokhin

Inserted 1 year ago

“The city remains important as a centre of Ukrainian forces' secondary line of defence in Donbas. But after the loss of Soledar and a virtual surrounding of Bakhmut from three-and-a-half sides out of four, its significance decreased significantly. So, its loss will reflect on the war insignificantly.”

Aljazeera

Research Fellow at Bremen University

06 Mar 2023 3 1

Volodymyr Nazarenko

Inserted 1 year ago

“They take no account of their losses in trying to take the city by assault. The task of our forces in Bakhmut is to inflict as many losses on the enemy as possible. Every metre of Ukrainian land costs hundreds of lives to the enemy. We need as much ammunition as possible. There are many more Russians here than we have ammunition to destroy them.”

Reuters

Deputy commander in the National Guard of Ukraine

03 Mar 2023 2 1

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Bakhmut - Ukraine

“The Russians still hope to capture the city [Bakhmut] by May 9. Our task is to prevent this.”

“The main emphasis of the Russian aggressors is on capturing multi-storey buildings and structures. It is in this way that they try to destroy our positions. The enemy has already used such tactics in Syria. He cannot fight in any other way, because he will lose to us in street battles.”

“Ukrainian units are not just defending but also counterattacking Russian forces in the city. This gives us the opportunity for several months to contain the enemy's offensive and not increase the front in this direction, to destroy his best units and buy time.”

“The Russians attack mainly in small groups of five to six people who, under the cover of artillery, try to penetrate the battle formations of the Defence Forces of Ukraine and engage in close-range shooting battles.”

“If we had not defended Bakhmut all this time, the enemy would have advanced deep into the territory of Ukraine, so the importance of defending the city must be understood in this context.”

“(Battles) are underway in the streets, enemy attempts to encircle the city are failing. Our command fully control the situation.”

“Bakhmut is Ukrainian and they have not captured anything and are very far from doing that, to put it mildly.”

“In less than a week, starting from the 6th March, we managed to kill more than 1,100 enemy soldiers in the Bakhmut sector alone, Russia's irreversible loss.”

“The closer we are to the centre of the city, the harder the fighting ... The Ukrainians throw in endless reserves. But we are advancing and we will be advancing. Yesterday, we got 15 truckloads, today we got 12. And I think we will continue to receive them.”

“The real heroes now are the defenders who are holding the eastern front on their shoulders, and inflicting the heaviest possible losses sparing neither themselves nor the enemy. It is necessary to buy time to build reserves and launch a counteroffensive, which is not far off.”

“I think it is more of a symbolic value than it is strategic and operational value. The fall of Bakhmut won't necessarily mean that the Russians have changed the tide of this fight.”

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